Month: February 2011

New mug design featuring towns in South Africa with names that imply wandering around, getting lost, or just meandering without a destination in mind. Fort Mistake, KZN – to find out how it got it’s name, click here; Riviersonderend, WC

So if you’ve been keeping up with my posts (hello fans!) you would know that I developed two coffee mug designs: Weird SA Places and SA Breakfast places. I got sucked into my map book by the map book fairies

It has bothered me for a long time, that the fairy tales we grew up knowing are actually a strange form of propaganda. Disney movies have only made the whole thing worse! They indoctrinate our (mainly) daughters into believing several

Frogs are fascinating. We always seemed to have a tank of them at nursery school and I remember being riveted by the whole metamorphosis from tadpole to froglet. We even went on an expedition to catch the tadpoles at a

So Valentine’s Day has gone for another year. For my optometrist clients I created these slightly kitsch owls… They went down well, but it seems a shame that their marketing life span was so short. Strangely enough, owls seem to

This was another, paint without drawing challenge. It was easy because all I wanted to do was draw these sweet treats for a gift tag. What I didn’t realise when I painted this was that cupcakes are super trendy at

And then you named your farm after the event…. Who does that? There are so many strange names for places all over the world, I decided that South Africa must have it’s fair share and had fun trawling through a